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Barbados - Bridgetown

29/5/2014

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New drawing - finished last night
Barbados - Bridgetown
42.5 x 31mm
Pencil, scalpel, rabbit skin gesso on quarter sawn oak block.
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Bangladesh - Dhaka

26/5/2014

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New drawing - finished last night.
Bangladesh - Dhaka
42mm x 32mm
Pencil, scalpel, crayon, rabbit skin gesso on oak
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Bahrain - Manama

22/5/2014

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New Drawing - finished last night
Bahrain - Manama
42.5mm x 31.5mm
Pencil, crayon, scalpel, handmade gesso on quarter sawn oak block
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Bahamas - Nassau

21/5/2014

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New drawing - finished last night
Bahamas - Nassau
42mm x 32mm
Pencil, scalpel, handmade gesso on quarter sawn oak block
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Azerbaijan - Baku

16/5/2014

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New drawing - finished last night
Azerbaijan - Baku
43mm x 32mm
Pencil, scalpel, rabbit skin gesso on quarter sawn oak
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Austria - Vienna

14/5/2014

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New drawing - finished last night
Austria - Vienna
42.5mm x 32mm
Pencil, scalpel, handmade rabbit skin gesso on quarter sawn oak.
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Australia - Canberra

13/5/2014

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NEW WORK - finished last night
Australia - Canberra
42mm x 31mm
Pencil, scalpel, rabbit skin glue gesso on quarter sawn oak
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Aremenia - Yerevan

10/5/2014

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Armenia - Yerevan
42mm x 31.5mm
Pencil, scalpel, handmade rabbit skin glue gesso on quarter sawn oak block
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Argentina, Buenos Aires

9/5/2014

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Argentina - Buenos Aires
42mm x 31mm
Pencil, chalk, scalpel & gesso on quarter sawn oak block.
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Albania - Tirana

7/5/2014

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Albania, Tirana
42mm x 31mm
Pencil, chalk, scalpel, handmade gesso on quarter sawn oak.
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Antigua and Barbuda - St Johns

4/5/2014

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NEW WORK - finished last night.
Antigua and Barbuda - St Johns
42.5mm x 31.5mm
Pencil, scalpel & handmade gesso on quarter sawn oak.
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Angola - Luanda

1/5/2014

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Finished late last night
Angola - Luanda
42.5mm x 32mm
Pencil, scalpel handmade gesso on quarter sawn oak block.
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    Drawing Project - The World

    This blog is a document of my capital cities drawing project which had its origination back in 2012.

    The now completed project functions as one piece of work consisting of a miniature drawing of every capital city in the world.

    There are under official international criteria (currently) 196 recognised capital cities. 

    The  quarter sawn oak blocks for the project were cut by Letterfrack conservation in Galway.

    The 196 oak blocks were sized using a freshly made mixture of rabbit skin glue. The gesso for the drawing surface was then made up using the rabbit skin glue and Rugen white ground.

    ​Six layers of gesso were applied to all 196 oak blocks.

    The individual drawings are produced with pencil, scalpel and burnishing tools.

    If you require any further information on this project please contact the artist on the form below.

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